Dacre’s street, New Tothill street.

Dagenham, a village in Essex, nine miles from London. About forty years ago, the Thames near this place bursting its banks, laid near 5000 acres of land under water; but after this inundation had continued near ten years, it was stopped by Captain Perry, who had been employed several years by the Czar of Muscovy, in his works at Veronitza on the river Don.

Dagger alley, 1. St. Peter’s hill.* 2. Peter street, Cow Cross.* 3. Quaker street, Spitalfields.*

Dagger court, 1. Quaker street.* 2. Moorfields.*

Dancing bridge, 1. Pickleherring stairs. 2. Potters fields, Tooley street.

Dancing Bridge stairs, Pickleherring street.

Danvers yard, Seething lane.†

Darby court, 1. Canon row.† 2. Channel row, Westminster.† 3. Piccadilly.†

Dark entry, 1. Great St. Anne’s lane. 2. Shoemaker row, Aldgate.

Darkhouse lane, Thames street.

Darking, a town in Surry, situated on a branch of the Mole, a little before it runs under ground. This town, which is very ancient, is 24 miles from London. It was destroyed by the Danes, but was rebuilt either by Canute or the Normans; and the great Roman causeway called Stony Street passes through the church yard. This place is famous for its meal trade, and its market for poultry, particularly for the largest geese and the fattest capons, which are brought hither from Horsham in Sussex; and the whole business of the people for many miles, consists in breeding and fattening them. Its market is on Thursdays, and its fair on Holy Thursday is the greatest in England for lambs. It is remarkable, that according to a custom of the manor, the youngest son or youngest brother of a customary tenant, is heir of the customary estate of the tenant dying intestate. Near the town is a heath, called the Cottman Dean, (i. e. the heath of poor cottages) on which stands their almshouse; and that heath, in the opinion of some learned physicians, has the best air in England.

Near this town stands Mr. Howard’s house and gardens called Deepden, situated in a small valley on every side surrounded with hills. The level ground about the house was laid out into pleasant walks and gardens, planted with a great variety of exotic trees and plants, and the hills planted with trees, except on the south aspect, which was covered with vines. But both the gardens and vineyard, though the latter has produced good wine, have been neglected, and many of the exotic trees have been destroyed. On the top of the hill, above the vineyard, is a summer house, from which, in a clear day, the sea may be discerned over the south downs.

Dartford, a town in Kent, sixteen miles from London, is more properly called Darentford, from its being situated on the river Darent, which runs through it, and at a small distance falls into the Thames. The town has a harbour for barges, and is finely watered by two or three good springs. King Edward III. had a general tournament performed here by his nobles, and also here founded a convent, whose abbess and nuns were, for the most part, of the noblest families in the kingdom; and this convent King Henry VIII. turned into a palace. Henry VI. founded an almshouse here in honour of the Trinity, to which the church is dedicated, for five poor decrepid men, to be governed by the Vicar and Wardens, who were constituted a body corporate, with a common seal, and a power to assign lands and rents to the hospital, to the value of 20l. per annum. On this river the first paper mill in England was erected by Sir John Spilman, who obtained a patent and 200l. a year from King Charles I. to enable him to carry on that manufacture: and on this river was also the first mill for slitting iron bars for making wire. The town is full of inns and other public houses, on account of its being a great thoroughfare to Canterbury and Dover. The market, which is on Saturdays, is chiefly for corn, and the town has the honour of giving the title of Viscount to the Earl of Jersey.

Dartmouth street, Tothill street.

Dart’s alley, Whitechapel.†

Dart’s rents, Long alley, Moorfields.†

Dashwood’s wharf, at the Old Swan, Thames street.†

Datchet, a pleasant village in Buckinghamshire, situated near Windsor, is noted for its horse races, and has a bridge over the Thames built in the reign of Queen Anne. At a small distance is Ditton Park.

David and Harp alley, Whitechapel.*

David and Harp court, Grub street.*

David street, Grosvenor square.

Davis yard, Coventry street.†

Davis’s rents, Kent street, Southwark.†

Dawson’s alley, St. Martin’s lane, Charing Cross.†

Dawson’s rents, Old Gravel lane.†

Day’s court, 1. Gutter lane.† 2. Old Change, Cheapside.†

Deacon’s court, Quakers street, Spitalfields.†

Deadman’s place, near Dirty lane, Southwark.

Deal street, Coverley’s fields.

Dean and Flown street, Fashion street.

Dean’s court, 1. Bedfordbury.† 2. Dean street, Fetter lane.† 3. Dean street, Red Lion square, Holborn.† 4. Dean street, Soho.† 5. Great Carter lane. 6. Little Old Bailey. 7. St. Martin’s le Grand.† 8. New Round court in the Strand.† 9. St. Paul’s Church yard, where the house belonging to the Dean of St. Paul’s stands.

Dean’s passage, Huggen lane, Thames street.

Dean street, 1. A very neat street in Fetter lane, Fleet street.† 2. High Holborn.† 3. Little Cock hill, Shadwell.† 4. Soho.† 5. Tyburn lane.† 6. Westminster.

Dean’s yard, 1. Shoreditch.† 2. Near Tothill street.†

Dearing’s rents, Liquorpond street.†

Defoe’s court, New Bond street.†

Deford’s court, Broad street, Marshall street.†

Delahay’s street, by Duke’s street, Westminster.†

Court of Delegates. This is the highest court for civil affairs belonging to the church, to which appeals are carried from the spiritual courts; for upon the abolishing of the papal power within this kingdom by Henry VIII. in the year 1534, it was enacted by parliament, that no appeals should from thenceforward be made to Rome; but in default of justice in any of the spiritual courts, the party aggrieved might appeal to the King in his court of Chancery; upon which a commission under the great seal should be directed to such persons as his Majesty should think fit to nominate. These Commissioners to whom the King thus delegates his power, generally consist of Noblemen, Bishops, and Judges, both of the common and civil law; and as this court is not fixed, but occasional, these Commissioners, or Delegates, are varied at the pleasure of the Lord Chancellor, who appoints them. No appeals lie from this court; but upon good reasons assigned, the Lord Chancellor may grant a commission of review.

Denham’s yard, Drury lane.†

Denman’s court, East Smithfield.†

Denmark court, in the Strand.

Denmark street, 1. Ratcliff Highway. 2. St. Giles’s.

Dennis passage, James’s street.†

Dentry’s yard, Wall street, Spitalfields.†

Dent’s alley, Red Cross alley, St. Margaret’s hill.†

Deptford, anciently called West Greenwich, is said to have received its present name from its having a deep ford over the little river Ravensbourn, near its influx into the Thames, where it has now a bridge. It is a large and populous town in Kent, four miles and a half from London, and is divided into Upper and Lower Deptford, which contain together two churches, several meeting houses, and about 1900 houses. It is most remarkable for its noble dock, where the royal navy was formerly built and repaired, till it was found more convenient to build the larger ships at Woolwich, and other places, where there is a greater depth of water: but notwithstanding this, the yard is enlarged to more than double its former dimensions, and a vast number of hands are constantly employed. It has a wet dock of two acres for ships, and another of an acre and a half, with vast quantities of timber and other stores, and extensive buildings, as storehouses, and offices, for the use of the place, besides dwelling houses for those officers who are obliged to live upon the spot, in order to superintend the works. Here the royal yachts are generally kept, and near the dock is the seat of Sir John Evelyn, called Say’s Court, where Peter the Great, Czar of Muscovy, resided for some time, and in this yard completed his knowledge and skill in the practical part of naval architecture.

In this town are two hospitals, one of which was incorporated by King Henry VIII. in the form of a college, for the use of the seamen, and is commonly called Trinity House of Deptford Strond; this contains twenty-one houses, and is situated near the church. The other called Trinity Hospital, has thirty-eight houses fronting the street. This is a very handsome edifice, and has large gardens well kept belonging to it. Though this last is the finest structure, yet the other has the preference, on account of its antiquity; and as the Brethren of the Trinity hold their corporation by that house, they are obliged at certain times to meet there for business. Both these houses are for decayed pilots or masters of ships, or their widows, the men being allowed 20s. and the women 16s. a month. For a particular account of the corporation called the Brothers of the Trinity, see the article Trinity House.

Deptford court, Rotherhith.

Deputy court, Aldersgate street.

Derby street, 1. Aldersgate street, 2. Rosemary lane.

Devereux court, 1. Basinghall street. 2. Without Temple Bar, near the place where the Lord Essex’s mansion house formerly stood.

Devil Tavern yard, Charing Cross.*

Devonshire court, Pickax street; or rather Long lane, West Smithfield.

Devonshire House, in Piccadilly, is the residence of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire when in London. The house is built principally of brick, and though plain is very elegant and well proportioned, and the rooms of state are very rich and magnificent. The offices on each side are properly subordinate to the house, so as to make a consistent whole. The collection of pictures, with which this house is adorned, is surpassed by very few either at home or abroad; of which the following is an exact list.

Moses and the burning bush, Jac. Bassan. Landscape, Claude Lorrain.

An historical subject, Paul Veronese.

Moses in the bullrushes, Van Dyck.

Wise men offering, P. Veronese.

Archbishop of Spoletto, Tintoret.

Cleopatra, Luca Giordano.

Family Piece, Dobson.

Arthur Goodwin, Van Dyck.

A Lady, its companion, ditto.

Diana and Acteon, figures C. Marat,

Landscape G. Poussin.

Joseph and his mistress, Carlo Cignani.

Solomon and the Q. of Sheba, Le Sueur.

Landscape, St. John in the wilderness, Titian.

Sine Baccho & Cerere friget Venus, Albano.

Two Portraits, Lord Falkland and Col. Cavendish, Van Dyck.

A drunken conversation, M. Angelo Caravaggio.

Susannah and the Elders, Annib. Carrache.

Jacob’s ladder, Salvator Rosa.

A holy family, Titian.

A holy family with boys, N. Poussin.

Christ and the woman of Samaria, F. Mola.

An old man in a Turkish dress, Rembrant.

A ruin, N. Poussin.

An emblematic picture, Andrea Sacchi.

Venus and Cupid, L. Giordano.

A portrait, Tintoret.

Portrait of an Abbess, over the door, Van Dyck.

Angel and Tobit, C. Marat.

Holy family, A. del Sarto.

Death of St. Peter, over the chimney, Donato Creti.

A piece of ruins, Viviano.

A portrait, Titian.

Two round landscapes, G. Poussin.

A woman and child, portraits, Van Dyck.

Head of a Saint, L. Giordano.

Adam and Eve, Domenichino.

A woman Saint taken up to heaven, Lanfranc.

Two circular landscapes, G. Poussin.

Andromeda, Guido.

Head of a Saint, M. Angelo Caravaggio.

Et in Arcadio Ego, N. Poussin.

A beggar boy with a bird’s nest, Amoroso.

Two portraits, one of Titian, the other Carlo Cignani by himself.

Sampson and Dalilah, Tintoret.

Two landscapes, F. Mola.

A holy family, C. Marat.

A landscape, G. Poussin.

A perspective view, Viviano.

A holy family, Guercino.

Whole length of Philip of Spain, Titian.

Whole length, Tintoret.

Holy family, over the chimney, Rubens.

Two battle pieces, Bourgognone.

Virgin and child, Cantarini.

Jacob wrestling with the Angel, S. Rosa.

David and Goliath, its companion, ditto.

Landscape, P. da Cortona.

Moses rescues the Priest of Midian’s daughters from the fury of the shepherds, Ciro Ferri.

An assumption, L. Giordano.

A girl feeding chickens, Amoroso.

St. Jerome, Domenichino.

A sleeping boy, C. Marat.

Several portraits, and two historical pictures,

Mars and Venus, and Venus and Cupid, both by Vanloo.

The transfiguration, over the chimney, Camillo Procacini.

Landscape, Horizonti.

Holy family, Baroche.

History from a romance, Romanelli.

Jupiter and Juno, A. Carrache.

Temptation of St. Anthony, a landscape, Teniers.

Cincinnatus, P. da Cortona.

Landscape, Teniers.

St. Veronica, Romanelli.

Angel and Child, S. Rosa.

St. Jerome, Titian.

Crucifix, A. Carrache.

Landscape, Jean Francesco.

Holy family.

Lot entertaining the angels, Schiavone.

Charity, C. Cignani.

Christ bearing his cross, Domenichino.

Duke of Braganza, L. da Vinci.

Magdalen, Corregio.

Alexander and Campaspe, Solimini.

Apelles and the Grecian virgins, ditto.

Cupid and Psyche, Alessandro Veronese.

Cephalus and Procris, Poussin.

Peter denying Christ, Caravaggio.

Women sewing, ditto.

Ditto making lace, ditto.

Landscape, Domenichino.

Adoration, Ditto.

Old woman’s head, Guido.

Woman of Samaria, M. Ang. Buonarotti.

Landscape, Paul Brill, figures Elsheimer.

Marriage of a virgin, Albert Durer.

Mars and Venus, Tintoret.

Two heads.

Isaac blessing Jacob.

Rebecca.

St. Joseph.

Mignard, Carlo Marat.

Holy family, Nic. Berettoni.

Two landscapes, Bourgognone.

Two ditto, Brughel.

Water-fall.

Flight into Egypt, Polenburgh.

Holy family, Albano.

Death of Dido, Paris Bourdon.

Pantheon.

Pope and Cardinals, John Van Eyck.

Landscape.

Plague at Athens, Bourdon.

Holy family, Parmegiano.

Ruins, Both.

Portrait of a sculptor, Sir Peter Lely.

Madona, Titian.

Portrait, A. Carrache.

Ditto, Fra. Hals.

Jupiter and Europa, Sir Peter Lely.

Saint and Angel, Ph. Laura.

Woman and Child, C. Cignani.

Holy family, C. Marat.

Soldier, woman and child, S. Rosa.

Murder of the innocents, Rottenhammer.

Two people counting money, Teniers.

Head, Raphael.

Ditto, Holbein.

Madona, Schidoni.

Holy family.

St. Jerome, Phil. Laura.

The royal yacht, over the door, Vandevelde.

Sophonisba, L. Giordano.

Trophy with the head of Lewis XIV.

Fruit piece, M. Angelo.

Country wake, Bamboccio.

Piece of still life.

Fruit piece with a carpet, Maltese.

Duke of Albemarle, Sir Peter Lely.

Fruit piece, M. Angelo.

Ship piece, Bourgognone.

Landscape, ditto.

Battle of Lewis XIV., Vandermeulen.

A chapel.

Susanna and the elders, Guercino.

Landscape, Tillemans.

A perspective view.

In the Hall several portraits of Vandyke, Sir Peter Lely, Sir Godfrey Kneller, &c.

Several portraits, among which are historical and other subjects, viz.

An historical subject, P. da Cortona.

Achilles and the Centaur, S. Rosa.

A battle piece, M. Angelo Battaglio.

Death of St. Peter, Guido.

Consecration of Thomas a Becket, J. Van Eyck.^[4]

Pope with his Cardinals in procession.

The presentation of Christ in the Temple, Hans Holbein.

Two pictures, Watteau.

Roman amphitheatre.

A conversation, candlelight.

Shoeing a horse, Wouwerman.

Landscape, Rowland Savory.

The beasts going into the ark. Jacopo Bassano.

Chymist’s laboratory, Teniers.

View of Newmarket, Tillemans.

Boar hunting, M. de Vos.

Two small pictures, Teniers.

Landscape, Domenichino.

Apollo and Marsyas, Titian.

Apollo and Midas, ditto.

Landscape, Bergham.

A conversation, candlelight, Bamboccio.

Devonshire square, Bishopsgate street. Here was formerly a very large and fine house, built by Jasper Fisher, one of the six clerks in Chancery, which on account of his being a man of no great birth or fortune, and much involved in debt, was called in derision, Fisher’s Folly; this house afterwards belonged to the Earl of Oxford, and lastly to the Earl of Devonshire, whose name is still preserved in the street and square built upon its ruins. Maitland.

This is a neat but small square, surrounded with good houses, with rows of trees before them; and adorned in the middle with the statue of Mercury gilt, placed on a pedestal, which is ornamented on each of the four sides with figures in bas relief. This square is inhabited by wealthy merchants.

Devonshire street, 1. Leading from Bishopsgate street to Devonshire square. 2. Queen square, Great Ormond street.

Diamond court, 1. Pearl street. Tite’s alley.

Dice Key lane, Billingsgate, Thames street.

Dice Key passage, Thames street.

Dick’s court, Crown alley, Upper Moorfields.

Dick’s Shore, Fore street, Limehouse.

Dick’s Shore alley, by Dick’s shore.

Dick’s Side alley, Hermitage.

Dickenson’s court, Quakers street, Spitalfields.†

Dickenson’s alley, Long lane.†

Digby’s rents, In the Minories.†

Digg’s rents, Blue Anchor alley.†

Dimmock’s yard, Stoney street.†

St. Dionis Backchurch, situated near the south west corner of Lime street, owes its name to St. Dionis, Dennis, or Dionysius, an Athenian Areopagite, or Judge, who being converted on St. Paul’s preaching at Athens, became the first Bishop of that city, and at length Patron of France. This is the celebrated Saint, who, according to the absurd and ridiculous fables of the Papists, carried his head two miles after it was cut off. The epithet of Backchurch, was given to this edifice from its situation behind a row of houses, to distinguish it from St. Gabriel’s church, which stood in the middle of Fenchurch street. The old church was destroyed by the great fire in 1666, and the present edifice, which is built with stone, was erected in its room.

This parish is a rectory, and one of the peculiars belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury. The rector receives 120l. a year in lieu of tithes.

Dipping alley, Fair street, Horselydown.

Dirty alley, 1. Fashion street. 2. Ratcliff highway.

Dirty hill, near Gray’s Inn lane.

Dirty lane, 1. Blackman street. 2. Brewer’s street. 3. High Holborn. 4. Hoxton. 5. Long Acre. 6. In the Mint, Southwark. 7. Old Place yard. 8. Shoreditch. 9. Stony lane. 10. In the Strand.

Court of Dispensations. See Court of Faculties and Dispensations.

Distaff lane, Old Change.

Distillers, a company incorporated by letters patent granted by Charles I. in the year 1638. This corporation is governed by a Master, three Wardens, nineteen Assistants, and 122 Liverymen, each of whom pay on their admission a fine of 13l. 6s. 8d.

Distillers yard, 1. Great Tower hill. 2. Shoreditch.

Ditch alley, Green alley, Tooley street.?

Ditch side, 1. Collingwood street.? 2. Cuckolds Point.?

Ditch side row, Holiwell lane, Shoreditch.

Ditton Park, is in the parish of Datchet, in Berks. The house, which is an ancient and venerable mansion, was built by Sir Ralph Winwood, Secretary of State to King James I. and afterwards came into the noble family of Montague; but on the demise of the late Duke, the house and manor of Datchet came to the present Earl of Cardigan. The former is built in the manner of a castle, surrounded by a large moat, in the middle of a pleasant park well planted with timber. The apartments are large and beautifully painted, and in the picture gallery is a good collection of paintings, many of them by the greatest masters.

Dizzle’s court, Beech lane.†

Dobbin’s rents, Whitechapel.†

Dobbs’s court, Swithin’s alley, Cornhill.†

Dobey’s court, Monkwell street.†

Dock Head, St. Saviour’s Dock.

Dock Head row, St. Saviour’s Dock.

Dock Side, Hermitage Dock.

Doctor Frier’s alley, Little Britain.†

Doctors Commons, a college for the study and practice of the civil law, where courts are kept for the trial of civil and ecclesiastical causes under the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Bishop of London; as in the court of Arches, and the Prerogative court. There are also offices in which wills are deposited and searched, and a court of faculties and dispensations. Causes are likewise tried here by the court of Admiralty, and by that of Delegates. The epithet of Commons is given to this place, from the Civilians commoning together as in other colleges.

This edifice is situated in Great Knight Rider street, near the College of Arms, on the south side of St. Paul’s Cathedral. The old building which stood in this place was purchased for the residence of the Civilians and Canonists, by Henry Harvey, Doctor of the civil and canon law, and Dean of the Arches; but this edifice being destroyed by the general devastation in 1666, they removed to Exeter House in the Strand, where the Civilians had their chambers and offices; and the courts were kept in the hall; but some years after the Commons being rebuilt in a far more convenient and sumptuous manner than before, the Civilians returned thither.

The causes of which the civil and ecclesiastical law do, or may take cognizance, are blasphemy, apostasy from Christianity, heresy, ordinations, institutions of clerks to benefices, celebration of divine service, matrimony, divorces, bastardy, tithes, oblations, obventions, mortuaries, dilapidations, reparation of churches, probate of wills, administrations, simony, incest, fornication, adultery, solicitation of chastity, pensions, procurations, commutation of penance, right of pews, and others of the like kind.

The practisers in these courts, are of two sorts, Advocates and Proctors. The Advocates are such as have taken the degree of Doctor of the civil law, and are retained as counsellors or pleaders. These must first upon their petition to the Archbishop, obtain his fiat; and then they are admitted by the Judge to practise. The manner of their admission is solemn. Two senior Advocates in their scarlet robes, with the mace carried before them, conduct the Doctor up the court with three reverences, and present him with a short Latin speech, together with the Archbishop’s rescript; and then having taken the oaths, the Judge admits him, and assigns him a place or seat in the court, which he is always to keep when he pleads. Both the Judge and Advocates, if of Oxford, wear in court scarlet robes, and hoods lined with taffata; but if of Cambridge, white minever, and round black velvet caps.

The Proctors, or Procurators, exhibit their proxies for their clients; and make themselves parties for them, and draw and give pleas, or libels and allegations, in their behalf; produce witnesses, prepare causes for sentence, and attend the Advocates with the proceedings. These are also admitted by the Archbishop’s fiat, and introduced by two senior Proctors. They wear black robes and hoods lined with fur.

The terms for the pleading and ending of causes in the civil courts, are but little different from the term times of the common law. The order as to the time of the sitting of the several courts, is as follows. The court of Arches having the pre-eminence, sits first in the morning. The court of Admiralty sits in the afternoon on the same day; and the Prerogative court also sits in the afternoon. See Arches, Prerogative court, &c.

Doctors Commons Library. This is a spacious room, containing a great number of books of all sorts, more particularly on civil law and history. It was greatly increased by the addition of the whole library of Sir John Gibson, Judge of the Prerogative Office, given by James Gibson, Esq; one of his descendants; and it must be continually improving, as every Bishop, at his consecration, gives at least 20l. and some 50, towards purchasing books for it. Maitland.

Doddington street, Leather lane, Holborn.†

Dodd’s alley, Nightingale lane, East Smithfield.†

Dodd’s yard, Nightingale lane, East Smithfield.†

Dodwell’s rents, Barnaby street, Southwark.†

Dog alley, 1. Bowling alley, Westminster.* 2. Fore street, Lambeth.*

Dog and Bear alley, 1. Fore street, Lambeth.* 2. Horselydown.* 3. Tooley street.*

Dog and Bear yard, 1. In the Borough.* 2. Crucifix lane.*

Dog and Duck alley, New Bond street.*

Dog and Duck stairs, near Deptford.*

Dog and Porridge yard, Old street.*

Doghouse bar, Windmill hill, Old street, so called from its being near the Doghouse, where the city hounds are kept.

Doghouse street, Old street.

Dog lane, Five Feet lane, Barnaby street.*

Dog row, Mile end.*

Dog Tavern yard, Thames street.

Dog yard, 1. College street, Westminster.* 2. Castle street, Long lane.* 3. Bear Inn yard, St. Margaret’s hill.*

Dog’s Head and Pottage Pot alley, Old street.*

Dog’s Head and Pottage Pot court, Whitecross street, Cripplegate.*

Dogwell court, Lombard street; White Friars.†

Dolbin’s court, 1. Black Eagle street.† 2. Monkwell street.†

Dolby’s court, Peter’s lane.†

Doleman’s yard, Holiwell street.†

Dolittle’s alley, Little Carter lane.†

Dolittle’s rents, Fashion street, Spitalfields.†

Dollishire court, Cable street.†

Dolphin alley, 1. Blackman street.* 2. St. Catharine’s court, St. Catharine’s.* 3. Cock lane, Snow hill.* 4. Gun street, Spitalfields.* 5. Long alley, Moorfields.* 6. Wapping.*

Dolphin court, 1. Gun street, Spitalfields.* 2. St. Catharine’s lane.* 3. High Holborn.* 4. Little Distaff lane.* 5. Ludgate hill.* 6. Lombard street, Spitalfields.* 7. Noble street, Foster lane.* 8. Tower street, Tower hill.*

Dolphin yard, 1. Blackman street.* 2. Butcher row, Ratcliff Cross.* 3. Dean street.* 4. Wapping.* 5. West Smithfield.*

Dolphin and three Colts yard, Crutched Friars.*

Dolphin Inn yard, Bishopsgate street.*

Donne’s alley, Noble street, Foster lane.†

Donnet’s court, Maddox street.*

Dorlston, a small but pleasant village near Hackney, to which parish it belongs.

Dormer’s hill, by Stratton’s Grounds.†

Dorrington street, Cold Bath fields.†

Dorset court, 1. Canon row. 2. Dorset Gardens. 3. Gunpowder alley.

Dorset gardens, Salisbury court, so called from this place being formerly the gardens belonging to the Earl of Dorset’s house.

Dorset stairs, Dorset street.?

Dorset street, 1. Near Crispin street, Spitalfields. 2. Fleet street, from the Earl of Dorset’s house, which formerly stood in Salisbury court. See Salisbury court. 3. Red Lion street.

Double Hand court, by Campion lane, Thames street.*

Double Hood court, Campion lane.

Dove court, 1. Addle hill, Great Carter lane.* 2. Gutter lane, Cheapside.* 3. Labour in vain hill, Thames street.* 4. Leather lane.* 5. Old Fish street.* 6. Old Jewry. 7. St. Swithin’s lane.* 8. Turnmill street.* 9. White Friars.*

Dover court, Dover street.

Dover street, Piccadilly.

Dowgate, according to Stow, was originally called Downgate, and was only a principal key for ships and vessels, to load and land goods and provisions: while Mr. Maitland contends for its being originally the south gate of this city, where was anciently the trajectus, or ferry of Watling street, one of the four great Roman military ways, and that it was by the Britons, under the Roman government, called Dourgate, that is Watergate.

Dowgate hill, Thames street.

Dowgate stairs, Couzen’s lane, Thames street.

Dowgate Ward, is bounded on the north by Walbrook ward; on the west, by Vintry ward; on the south, by the Thames; and on the east, by Candlewick and Bridge wards: extending from St. Martin’s lane in the east, to Cloak lane in the west, and from thence both east and west to the Thames, in almost a strait line.

In this ward is the parish church of Allhallows the Great; and also Plumbers hall, Watermens hall, Joiners hall, Innholders hall, Skinners hall, and Tallow Chandlers hall; Merchant Taylor’s school, and the Steel Yard.

It has an Alderman, his Deputy, and seven other Common Council men, fourteen wardmote inquest men, five scavengers, eight constables and a beadle. The jurymen returned by the wardmote inquest serve in the several courts of Guildhall in the month of October. Maitland.

Dowgate wharf, Thames street.

Downing street, King’s street, Westminster.†

Down’s street, Hyde Park road.†

Dowse key, near Dice Key, Billingsgate.

Drake street, Red Lion square.†

Drapers, one of the twelve principal companies, was incorporated by letters patent granted by Henry VI. in the year 1439, by the title of The Master, Wardens, Brethren and Sisters of the guild or fraternity of the blessed Mary the Virgin, of the mystery of Drapers of the city of London.

This company is governed by a Master, four Wardens, and thirty Assistants, with a livery of 140 persons, who upon their admission pay a fine of 25l. They apply to charitable uses about 4000l. a year.

Draper’s alley, Woodroffe street, Tower hill.

Draper’s court, Prince’s street, Lothbury.†

Drapers Hall, situated on the south side of Throgmorton street, is built upon the ruins of a noble palace erected on that spot, in the reign of King Henry VIII. by Thomas Lord Cromwell, Earl of Essex, which upon his attainder and execution for high treason devolving to the Crown, was purchased by the Company of Drapers, for the use to which it is now applied: but was burnt in the fire of London in 1666, and has been since rebuilt in a very handsome manner.

This is a spacious and noble edifice, which composes the four sides of a quadrangle, each of which is elevated on columns and adorned with arches, forming a piazza round a square court, and between each arch is a shield, mantling, and other fretwork. The room called the hall is adorned with a stately screen, and fine wainscot; the pictures of King William III. King George I. King George II. at full length; and an ancient picture, a three quarter length of Henry Fitz-Alwine, a draper, and the first Lord Mayor of London.

There are also several other large rooms wainscoted with oak; as the court room, at the end of which hangs a valuable picture of Mary Queen of Scots at full length, with King James her infant son in her hand. This leads into a long gallery, at the south end of which is a door into the apartments for the clerk and offices: at the north end a folding sash door opens into a grand square room called the Ladies chamber, where the company have been used at certain seasons to entertain their wives and friends with a ball. In the center of this room hangs a large and beautiful cut chandelier, which was a present from the late Sir Joseph Eyles, when he served the office of Sheriff: and over the chimney piece is a fine picture of Sir Robert Clayton, Lord Mayor of London. Out of the west side of this room is a passage that leads to a place called the Record room; the door to which is of iron; it is strongly built over the passage that leads into the garden, and covered with a cistern that contains such a body of water as may at any time be sufficient to defend this apartment from fire that might spread from the adjacent buildings.

Drapers Gardens, are pleasant and commodious, though not very large. They are situated behind the hall, and being nearly square, have on each side rows of lime trees which form very agreeable walks. The middle part, which is enclosed by iron rails, has several grass plats bordered with beds of flowers, and in the center is a statue of Flora. In this part there are also several mulberry trees. These gardens are open every day in the week except Sundays, for all persons decently dressed.

Drayton, a village in Middlesex, situated on the river Coln, about eighteen miles west from London.

Drew’s alley, Cow Cross, West Smithfield.†

Drew’s court, Peter street, Westminster.†

Drew’s rents. Upper Ground.†

Driftway, Near Bethnal green.

Driver’s yard, Old street.

Drum alley, 1. Drury lane.* 2. High Holborn.*

Drum yard, Whitechapel.*

Drury lane, between the Strand and St. Giles’s Broad street. Drury, was the old word for modesty; but this lane received its name from the house of the noble family of Drewry being anciently situated at the lower end of Drury lane, and the upper end of Wych street. Vocab. to Chaucer, Maitland’s Survey.

Drury’s rents, Hermitage.†

Drying Grounds, New Bond street.

Dual’s alley, High Holborn.†

Duck lane, 1. Peter street, Westminster. 2. West Smithfield.

Duck’s court, Cursitor street.†

Ducking Pond alley, Whitechapel common.

Ducking Pond lane, 1. Mile end, New town.

Ducking Pond row, Whitechapel common.

Dudley’s court, Hog lane, St. Giles’s.†

Duet’s wharf, Lemon street, Southwark.†

Duffer’s court, Little Broad street.†

Duffin’s alley, King’s street, Westminster.†

Duke’s alley, 1. Castle yard, Holborn. 2. Kingsland road.

Duke’s court, 1. Bow street, or Drury lane. 2. Crown alley, Upper Moorfields. 3. Kingsland road. 4. Little Almonry. 5. St. Martin’s lane, Charing Cross. 6. Narrow street, Limehouse.

Duke’s Place, near Aldgate, so called from the Duke of Norfolk having formerly a seat there. Maitland.

Duke’s Place court, Duke’s place.

Duke Shore, Limehouse.

Duke Shore alley, Duke shore.

Duke Shore stairs, Limehouse.

Duke street, 1. Brook’s street, New Bond street. 2. Gravel lane, Southwark. 3. Great Germain street. 4. Great Russel street, Bloomsbury. 5. Grosvenor square. 6. Lincoln’s Inn fields. 7. Mint street. 8. Piccadilly. 9. Spitalfields. 10. Tyburn road. 11. By Charles street, near King’s street, Westminster. 12. York buildings. See York Buildings.

Duke of Norfolk’s yard, St. Alban’s street.

Dulwich, a very pleasant village in Surry, five miles from London, where there is a spring of the same medicinal waters as those of Sydenham wells, with which the master of the Green Man, a house of good entertainment, serves this city, and in particular St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. The fine walk opposite to this house, through the woods, affords from its top a very noble prospect; but this is much exceeded by that from a hill behind the house, where from under a tree distinguished by the name of The Oak of Honour, you have a view as in a fine piece of painting, of the houses as well as churches, and other public edifices, from Putney down to Chelsea, with all the adjacent villages, together with Westminster, London, Deptford, and Greenwich, and over the great metropolis, as far as Highgate, and Hamstead. But Dulwich is most famous for its college.

Dulwich College, was founded and endowed in 1619, by Mr. William Alleyn, who named it, The college of God’s gift. This gentleman being a comedian and principal actor in many of Shakespear’s plays; once personating the devil, was said to be so terrified at the opinion of his seeing a real devil upon the stage, that he from that moment quitted the theatre, devoted the remainder of his life to religious exercises, and founded this college for a Master and Warden, who were always to be of the name of Alleyn, or Allen; with four Fellows, three of whom were to be divines, and the fourth an organist; and for six poor men, as many poor women, and twelve poor boys, to be educated in the college by one of the fellows as schoolmaster, and by another as usher. In his original endowments, he excluded all future benefactions to it, and constituted for visitors, the churchwardens of St. Botolph’s Bishopsgate, St. Giles’s Cripplegate, and St. Saviour’s Southwark; who, upon occasion, were to appeal to the Archbishop of Canterbury, before whom all the members were to be sworn at their admission. To this college belongs a chapel, in which the founder himself, who was several years Master, lies buried. The Master of this college is Lord of the manor, for a considerable extent of ground, and enjoys all the luxurious affluence and ease of the Prior of a monastery. Both he and the Warden, must be unmarried, and are for ever debarred the privilege of entering that state, on pain of being excluded the college; but as the Warden always succeeds upon the death of the Master, great interest is constantly made, by the unmarried men of the name of Allen, to obtain the post of Warden.

The original edifice is in the old taste; but part of it has been lately pulled down and rebuilt with greater elegance, out of what has been saved from the produce of the estate. The Master’s rooms are richly adorned with very noble old furniture, which he is obliged to purchase on his entering into that station; and for his use there is a library, to which every Master generally adds a number of books. The college is also accommodated with a very pleasant garden, adorned with walks, and a great profusion of fruit trees and flowers.

Dumb alley, High Holborn.

Dun Cow court, Little Cock lane.

Dun Horse yard, 1. Coleman street.* 2. St. Margaret’s hill.*

Dung wharf, 1. Millbank. 2. Wapping Wall.

Dunghill lane, High Timber street.

Dunghill mews, near Hedge lane.

Dunkirk court, Cock lane, Shoreditch.

Dunning’s alley, Bishopsgate street without.†

Dun’s Almshouse, was erected by Cornelius Van Dun, a Fleming, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, with twenty rooms for so many poor widows; but it not being endowed, is inhabited by the parish pensioners of St. Margaret’s Westminster.

St. Dunstan in the East.
S. Wale delin. J. Fougeron sculp.